Many cities are in the midst of a housing affordability crisis.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is responding by...doing virtually nothing.
Damning @GlennThrush piece: nytimes.com/2018/07/27/us/…
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is responding by...doing virtually nothing.
Damning @GlennThrush piece: nytimes.com/2018/07/27/us/…
"The Trump administration’s main policy response, unveiled this spring by Ben Carson: a plan to triple rents for 712,000 of the poorest tenants receiving federal housing aid and to loosen the cap on rents on 4.5 million households enrolled in federal voucher and public housing."
"As city and state officials and members of both parties clamor for the federal government to help, Mr. Carson has privately told aides that he views the shortage of affordable housing as regrettable, but as essentially a local problem."
"When congressional Democrats and Republicans scrambled to save his department’s budget and rescue an endangered tax credit that accounts for 9 of 10 affordable housing developments built in the country, Carson sat on the sidelines, according to legislators and staff members."
